I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it.
CLARENCE DARROWAncestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.
More Clarence Darrow Quotes
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I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
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Religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don’t believe in either.
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I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
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Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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Chase after the truth like all hell.
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The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
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Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.
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I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
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Great wealth often curses all who touch it.
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Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
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Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
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